It’s been nearly a year since we last checked in on the fortunes of the Roy family, a 10-month period that’s seen any number of media empires, fictional or otherwise, fall under the effects of the COVID-19 lockdown. Among the affected: HBO’s Succession, which was originally supposed to start filming again back in…

Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe is a landmark show in the history of LGBTQ+ representation in kids’ entertainment—normalizing the notion of same sex relationships so thoroughly that one of the show’s main characters is the literal living incarnation of one. All of which stemmed directly from the goals and drives of…

It’s annoyingly difficult to figure out what’s going on with the Star Trek movie properties at the moment—although, to be fair, that appears to be just as messy of an issue for the people inside Paramount right now as out. Per Deadline, the studio’s new Motion Picture Group president, Emma Watts—fresh off her tenure…

Look: We’re not saying that Big Trouble In Little China and Kung Fu Panda (and Blader Runner. And Wayne’s World 2. And Tango & Cash. And…) star James Hong works a lot, but the last time we tried to check his IMDB page (439 credits, and no sign of slowing down), our Chrome tab exploded. Hong is one of the most prolific…

The One Perfect Shot Twitter account has been around for 7 years at this point, serving up to its nearly 600,000 followers a regular feed of well-crafted cinematography and movie-based storytelling. In fact, the account has proven so popular that it’s now entered into what we can only describe as the Shit…

2020 has not been a good year for the world of the international film festival, to put it mildly. Sure, we managed to get a Sundance on the books before COVID-19 shut the entire circuit down, but for the most part, the major festivals have been lucky to get even a virtual version of themselves up and running during…

It’s been awhile about four hours since we last encountered a story that also, in some bone-deep way, feels like a potent metaphor for the shitshow that is 2020, so let’s dive into another, shall we?

A few months back, twins Fred and Tim Williams went viral for a video in which they listened to Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” for the first time. It was pretty great! The pleasure of that particular reaction video is seeing two people discover a great song for the very first time, an experience also offered by videos of the…

It’s a big news day for Hulu, which has already unveiled the first look at its Animaniacs revival and announced the renewals of Love, Victor and Taste The Nation With Padma Lakshmi. (Do not get this confused with the onslaught of news that would typically pour out of the Television Critics Association summer press…

Back in January, Hulu gave a straight-to-series order to a new comedy starring Steve Martin and Martin Short, which we’ve since come to learn is titled Only Murders In The Building. The series, which combines true crime, mystery, and humor, is based on an idea from Martin (as in Steve). New info on the show has…

Though the pandemic-related shutdowns have had a profound effect on TV productions, Hulu isn’t just twiddling its thumbs. The streamer made several programming announcements today, including sharing a first look at and the premiere date for its Animaniacs revival, as well as the first trailer for Pen15 season two. And…

When it debuted last year, Hulu’s Pen15 instantly becaome one of the strangest, most strangely heartwarming things on modern TV—an attempt by comedians Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle to capture the awkward madness of middle school life by injecting their adult selves almost literally back into it. Watching Erskine and…

They’re animan-y, totally insane-y—and now they’re almost back. As part of its virtual press tour today, Hulu announced that it’s set a premiere date for its much-anticipated revival of Steven Spielberg’s Animaniacs, with the series set to return for a 13-episode new season on November 20, 2020. Yes, Yakko, Wakko, and…

The Kansas City Royals put a cut-out of Bernie from Weekend At Bernie’s in the stands as they played. At first blush, this is nothing more than a funny sight gag—a cute way to break up the tide of fan photographs filling stadiums during COVID-19 by offering a nod to a classic comedy. We have tried as hard as we can to…

Each new fact we learn about James Gandolfini, accomplished actor and friend of SpongeBob, fills us with a simple kind of joy. This is probably because Gandolfini and Tony Soprano are inseparably linked and everything funny or nice we hear about him must inevitably clash with an ill-founded mental image of him…

This fall, Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen (12 Years A Slave, Widows) will release an anthology via BBC and Amazon Prime Video comprised of five films that explore life in London’s West Indian community. Today, McQueen shared his first look at the anthology, dubbed Small Axe, with a look at Mangrove, a film…

If anybody’s equipped to deal with socially responsible family quarantine during this pandemic, it’s gotta be Matthew McConaughey. Appearing on Thursday’s Tonight Show in an open-necked yellow shirt we’re gonna call “relaxed-wear cult,” the Interstellar star was there to pitch his new sort-of memoir, Greenlights. A…

Donald Trump’s war on things he can actually get his diminutive claws on took a sudden, shocking lurch into Big Boy Territory tonight, as Engadget reports that the White House has just followed through on its plans to block Chinese TikTok owner ByteDance from performing financial transactions in the United States. All…

There have been a lot of questions raised in recent months about how the theater industry is eventually going to lure people back within its dark and spacious arms, ranging from our shared cultural love of watching Christopher Nolan blow shit up, all the way to our shared cultural love of watching old Harry Potter movi…